Re: When in the Empyrean Sonnet
by
White_Rabbit
07/04/2008, 6:57 AM
Foobs:I know that I counter the popular view
but I thought that it sucked ere the title was through...
So did I, Foobs. So did I. And ditto on the rest of it:
Foobs:I was sure that its badness would be of a type
with the reading revealing I'd pre-judged it right.
It's common, conceited, preposterous fluff
(there are websites and magazines full of the stuff);
it's the sort that one Pinsky will always adore
and the reason that he should be booed and ignored.
Just because it is murky does not make it deep,
anymore than expensive can not go with cheap
The emperor's dressed as he was at his birth;
a day, we now see, of unwarranted mirth.
Even if I had the time to hit the thing with a parody of my own...what could I say that would be more to the point than that?
(Hm...maybe a Real Men of Genius parody? No, no, no, keep that Parody Monster within my brain in heavy chains; I don't have time to deal with this rot...)
wr ()()